Reinhold steinecke



(No Model.)

B. STEINEGKE.

NESTED BOXES. -No. 402,866.

Patented May 7, 1889.

WITNESSES.-

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REINI'IOLD STEINEOKE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

NESTED BOXES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,866, dated May 7,1889.

Application filed March 13, 1889. Serial No. 303,149. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, REINHOLD STEINEOKE, of the city, county, and Stateof New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in NestedBoxes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which- Figure 1 is atop view of a set of nested boxes of my invention. Fig. 2 is across-section of the same on the line 0 c, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is anenlarged section of the hinged portion thereof.

The object of this invention is to so construct nested boxes (that is tosay, double boxes, one contained within the other) that when the lid ofthe outer box is opened the lid of the inner box will thereb'y also beopened, and yet each box have its own characteristic lid. Such nestedboxes are useful for many purposes. In the drawings the invention isshown applied to cigar-boxes, where the inner box, A, is of wood and theouter box, B, of metal, the wooden box containing the cigars, the metalbox preventing the evaporation of moisture; but such boxes are alsouseful for many other purposes, and I do not confine myself to the useof the invention for cigars. It is very evident that a person using suchboxes will find it desirable and in fact necessary that, their contentsbe displayed whenever he opens the lid of the outer box. To this end Imake the lid 0 of the outer box with a dependent flange, a, and hingethe same at b to the body of the box B. The lid D of the inner box, A,is hinged at (Z.

It Will be seen from Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings that the hinge of theinner box is on a high er plane than the hinge of the outer box.Consequently when the lid 0 of the outer box is swung'open from theposition shown in full lines in Fig. 2 to that shown by dotted lines thefront flange, a, of the lid 0 will bind on the front edge of the lid D,and will thus carry the lid D up with it until the rearmost position isattained, (which is also shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2,) When the lidsmay separate. Hence in opening and also in closing the box the personusing it has only to handle the outer lid, 0. The front flange, a, ofthe lid 0, being of thin metal, is slightly flexible, and the personopening the box will naturally press with the finger against this frontflange, as is indicated in the drawings, thus binding the lids togetherin the starting operation of the opening. I

The binding action of the front flange, a, upon the front edge of thelid D during the motion of the lid 0 while opening the box is dependentupon the fact that the hinge d is higher than the hinge b and that thecircle described by the swinging of the lid D is eccentric to thatdescribed by the lid 0.

Having now described my invention, what I claim is- The combination, innested boxes, of the inner box, A, and its hinged lid D with the outerbox, B, and its hinged lid 0, said hinged lid 0 having the dependentflangea, the hinge b of the lid 0 being lower than the hinge d of thelid D, substantially as herein shown and described.

REINHOLD STEINEOKE. lVitn esses:

HARRY M. TURK, O. A. DIETERICH.

